Category Archives: Iraq War

I’m becoming more and more convinced that a bailout package spending hundred of billions of dollars (arguably trillions in total) is just another way to forestall America investing in itself – much like the Iraq War. Why do we have the most expensive and least comprehensive health care coverage in the world? Well, because we’ve […]

1. When they talk about costs in a crisis, assume true costs will be ten to 100 times estimates and that they will hide the real cost. In this current Wall Street crisis please note that the $700 billion bailout does not include the bailout costs of Bear Sterns (up to $29 billion), Fannie Mae/Freddie […]

[Hat tip Ezra Klein] James Fallows spell out what’s wrong with Sarah Palin not knowing what the Bush Doctrine is here. I was going to blog my own thought about it that boiled down to this: doesn’t she read the newspapers? Any decent newspaper, especially in the Op-Ed section, has discussed the Bush Doctrine of […]

There’s been recent discussion of whether Republican Illinois State Senator Kirk Dillard blew it when Dillard appeared in an ad for Barack Obama in the Democratic Presidential Primaries. At the time I thought it was a smart move on his part – possibly with an eye to a post in an Obama Administration. I still […]

[Hat tip to Ezra] Instead of funding the Iraq War, Americans could have done a lot with the money – like give each of us a Toyota Prius or supply the Irish with beer for 1,000 years. War or Car? offers some necessary perspective on the Iraq War’s financial cost. The human cost is worse. […]

Scott Harper has a petition you can sign to demand more affordable college education for veterans here. [Scott Harper at today's press conference on making college more affordable for veterans.] From the Scott Harper for Congress Campaign: “Harper, Veterans condemn Biggert’s vote against GI Bill, announce launch of petition campaign Romeoville – Scott Harper, the […]

According to today’s New York Times, Justin Case, John McCain’s Spokesperson/Campaign Manager/Strategist/Chief Fundraiser/Field Manager/All-Around Handy Guy, told reporters that John McCain had fired his staff because of their lobbying connections, including clients like a Russian businessman “barred from entering” the U.S. because of purported links to organized crime, the repressive totalitarian country Myanmar (Burma) and […]

Charlie Pierce has written an extremely powerful piece, “The Cynic and Senator Obama,” in this month’s Esquire. Whatever you may think of it – it’s an important criticism, made more moving by Pierce’s love for an America lost (and feared forever lost). I got there via Ezra Klein’s post, which is also well worth a […]

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Hiram Wurf has been a resident of Madison, WI since 2010 and lives with his wife and two children who attend Madison public schools. Hiram grew up discussing politics around the dinner table, and pursued his interest at Rutgers College, where he took every course he could with Carey McWilliams, and then went to Northern Illinois University for graduate school in Political Theory, where he was an H. B. Earhart Foundation Fellow, academic advisor and course instructor.

Formerly of Naperville, IL, Hiram volunteered with the Howard Dean campaign in 2003, becoming the Chair of Fundraising and Outreach in the all-volunteer DuPage for Dean Group. He led the DuPage section of Democracy for Illinois, a state group that embraced socially progressive and fiscally responsible policies and was inspired by, and worked with, Democracy for America, a group dedicated to similar ideals. Hiram also served as Secretary of the Naperville Township Democratic Organization. In 2004 Hiram ran as the Democratic candidate for the DuPage County Board, and earned the Chicago Tribune's endorsement in the general election.

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